Day 12:: Eucharisteo when we don’t feel like it

I am asking myself this today and not feeling much like giving thanks, living eucharisteo in this process of packing up boxes along with my feelings. This morning I would like to imagine it were that easy, just box them up and store them up high… but I know that I must learn how to live with them, how to humbly let go and cleave to Him. Today I am in need of grace, more grace than yesterday for I am feeling very much caught in the in-between today and not wanting to let go of here to go there.

My heart begs to stay, to escape all this pain coming upon me.

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How do I turn these last few pages of my own chapter? It’s getting to close, it is all to real. I know inside that I must look ahead to the next chapter and find comfort in the words spilled on those pages that have been written and will be spoken into existence, when these last pages are flipped, revealing what is to come next. What I don’t know, that which is is beyond my eyes to see and I trust that He not only knows but has ordered it to come to pass as He reads the words of His own story.

But how do I get past these feelings into eucharisteo for the now… living fully right here in the in-between?

Feelings can be our worst enemies {they are often mine}, causing us to be distracted and miss the point or goal of our mission here. They can fill our hearts so that there is no room for Him. Scripture tells us to take every thought captive {1 Corinthians 10:5} and to set our mindson things that are above {Colossians 3:2}. That is what we must do in these times. Hold our thoughts, the mother of our feelings, captive and think on truth in order to birth new feelings to live here, right now.

Feelings are a choice birthed by our thoughts, never forget this. We choose what we think about which naturally produces our feelings, so they are a choice. Do I desire to feel the way I do right now? No, so then I must think differently. I must think on Him, remember Him. It is a choice, I must choose to think, to remember. Think through truth instead of lies.

Can I find a heart full of grace, abounding and overflowing in praise, in eucharisteo for the blessing right here? I know the anwser…

It is yes, if I choose it. Will I receive His gifts today so that I can give thanks and praise?

It is up to me. I always have a choice, I decide whether or not I will remember Him, make His reality my central focus . How am I going to choose to think right now in this moment?

We are encouraged by Joshua to choose this day whom you will serve {Joshua 24:15} and Paul heeds us to take every thought captive to obey Christ {1 Corinthians 10:5}.

Sounds like a battle, a war. We can live eucharisteo among our feelings, it is possible to take them into submission to His truth but it will not be easy and we will not always feel like lifting up praise.

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